ABOUT 50 protesters gathered at Fiona Stanley Hospital on Monday night demanding a Tamil refugee and her family be returned to their home in Biloela, Queensland.  Priya Murugappan had been detained on Christmas Island with her husband Nades and two children since 2019 but was transferred to Perth last week after complaining about severe abdominal…

BUSINESSES will have to prove their bona fides before voting in this year’s Perth council elections. Businesses, which can get two votes, play a huge role in the capital city contest where there are low resident numbers, but the recent state inquiry into the council heard allegations of “sham leases” to rig elections. Not checked…

CHICKENS have come back to roost at Roxy Lane Community Garden in Maylands, after they were temporarily re-homed due to an anonymous complaint. A few months ago someone complained to the council that the chicken enclosure touched the side of the garden’s property, while the city’s chicken-keeping rules require the enclosure to be free-standing.  The…

FORMER Nightline host Graham Maybury is back behind the microphone for the first time in six years in the podcast Demystifying Aged Care. Covering topics like dementia, aged care living and the financial challenges of retirement, each 30-minute episode features Mr Maybury in conversation with independent experts and older West Australians and their families. “Doing…

A RELOCATED Chinese New Year celebration, a Festival of Sail, and a multi-generational LGBTI+ barn hoedown are on a lineup of events hoped to kickstart the city’s post-coronavirus recovery. Perth city council has set aside $1.25 million for post-Covid events this financial year, focusing on bringing visitors back to the city centre and reversing the…

Eighty years on from a dramatic month  PATRICK GUITON is an Attadale resident; but he hasn’t always been so lucky to have such a prestigious postcode to call home. Eighty years ago, he called the Channel Islands home, and in this Speaker’s Corner remembers the day war really hit home. JUNE 1940 is well known…

MOST people only think of dust when it’s spring cleaning time, but a Maylands astronomer says without a special kind of dust we might never get to enjoy a beautiful starry night. Omima Osman is a final year PhD candidate at UWA where she’s spent the last two and a half years researching cosmic dust,…

A SITE’S been chosen at the corner of Hill and Wellington Streets in East Perth for the Common Ground housing block for homeless people. The Common Ground model lets people stay in self-contained homes as long as they need and provides them with intensive support services, and has seen good results in other cities. The…

A PERTH mum is steaming after car clampers swooped while her son was grabbing a quick takeaway coffee in Bayswater at 6.38am ‚Äì hours before businesses were due to open. Local executive Maria McAtackney says her son stopped for the pre-dawn coffee at Drip Expresso on Friday July 10 when he was stung by workers…

SINCE coming out of a palliative care ward in March, Carmela Yom-Tov says she feels full of gratitude for the care she’s received. Dr Yom-Tov has terminal blood cancer and didn’t know what to expect after her release from hospital, when she was referred to Silver Chain’s palliative care team “to have as easy a…